repoliticize

English

Alternative forms

• repoliticise

Etymology

From re- +‎ politicize.

Verb

repoliticize (third-person singular simple present repoliticizes, present participle repoliticizing, simple past and past participle repoliticized)

1. (transitive) To politicize again.
   • 1992, Ben Agger, The Discourse of Domination: From the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 239:

     I shall here sharpen my critique of the Hegelian Marxism of the Frankfurt school, arguing that theorists like Horkheimer and Adorno failed to repoliticize Marxism […]

   • 2000, Jenny Edkins, Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 129:

     I examine some recent attempts to do this — to repoliticize famines — particularly those that introduced the notion of famine as a complex political emergency

   • 2013, Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe, Benjamin Stephan, Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance: (De)constructing the Greenhouse, Routledge, →ISBN, page 252:

     Bedall shows how social movements, who attempt to repoliticize global climate governance, often end up playing the song of depoliticization.

Translations

Translations

• French: repolitiser (fr)
• Korean: 재정치화(再政治化) (jaejeongchihwa)
• Spanish: repolitizar